New Book Toc: to Fix Torah in Their Hearts
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H-Judaic New Book ToC: To Fix Torah in Their Hearts Discussion published by Jason Kalman on Friday, May 24, 2019 We are pleased to announce the publication of: To Fix Torah in Their Hearts: Essays on Biblical Interpretation and Jewish Studies in Honor of B. Barry Levy edited by Jaqueline S. du Toit, Jason Kalman, Hartley Lachter, and Vanessa R. Sasson (Hebrew Union College Press) Contents Introduction 1 Jaqueline S. du Toit, Jason Kalman, Hartley Lachter, and Vanessa R. Sasson Of Sons and Students 9 David, Jonathan, and Daniel Levy Text, Texture, Context, Pretext: Biography of a Professor, Educator, Mentor, Researcher 11 Deborah Abecassis Body of Work 15 Diviners in High Places: On Interpreting the Night Skies of the Ancient Near East 23 Andrea D. Lobel Hate in Early Rabbinic Traditions 59 Joel Gereboff Naming Names: The Meaning and Significance of Disputes and the Use of Attributions to Named Authorities in Mishnah 85 Jack N. Lightstone A Cairo Genizah Fragment of Genesis Rabbah from the Collection of McGill University 119 Jason Kalman and the Students of 135–535a: Exegetical Midrash (McGill University, 2000) Between Narrative and Exegesis: Miyyad in Midrash Genesis Rabbah 145 Shawn Zelig Aster Stories of Excess: Abraham and Vessantara 171 Vanessa R. Sasson Taking Stock of the Text(s) of Rashi’s Torah Commentary: Some Twenty- First Century Citation: Jason Kalman. New Book ToC: To Fix Torah in Their Hearts. H-Judaic. 05-24-2019. https://networks.h-net.org/node/28655/discussions/4145418/new-book-fix-torah-their-hearts Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 1 H-Judaic Considerations and the Case for Leipzig 1 199 Yedida Eisenstat “The Earth is Only for the Strong”: Interpretations of b. Sanhedrin 58b in High Medieval Europe 233 Jesse Abelman Radak’s Preemptive Exegesis: Concealed and Revealed Polemic in the Book of Kings 257 Bryna Jocheved Levy The Maharshal and Two Inverted Nuns 287 Sholom Eisenstat An Anonymous Commentary on the Ten Sefirot: Text and Translation 331 Hartley Lachter David Zvi Hoffmann versus Julius Wellhausen on the Age of the Day of Atonement 373 Carla Sulzbach Fixing God’s Torah in Small Caps: Children’s Bibles, Bible Scholarship, and Contemporary Judaism 409 Jaqueline S. du Toit Out of the Caves and Under Glass: The Politics of Exhibiting the Dead Sea Scrolls 431 Jason Kalman About the Contributors 483 Citation: Jason Kalman. New Book ToC: To Fix Torah in Their Hearts. H-Judaic. 05-24-2019. https://networks.h-net.org/node/28655/discussions/4145418/new-book-fix-torah-their-hearts Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 2.